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Clemens signs with Yankees

Monday, May 7th, 2007

Clemens signed a $28 million, one-year contract that will start when he is added to the major league roster for his first start, most likely in three to four weeks. Clemens will earn about $18.5 million under the deal, which will cost the Yankees approximately $7.4 million in additional luxury tax, meaning they are investing about $26 million in a seven-time Cy Young Award winner who will turn 45 in August.

Clemens helped the Yankees win World Series titles in 1998 and 1999.

Clemens had limited his field to the Yankees, Astros and Boston Red Sox, his original team. But when Clemens’ agent, Randy Hendricks, spoke to the Astros and Red Sox in recent days, they said they’d prefer he join up with them in late June or early July. The Yankees, according to Hendricks, said: “We’d like you yesterday.”

Clemens is eighth on the career wins list with 348 and second in strikeouts with 4,604. He was 7-6 with a 2.30 ERA last season for Houston.

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Clemens Returns to Houston

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

Clemens agreed to a $22 million contract Wednesday to pitch for Houston for the rest of 2006, ending months of speculation around baseball and in his own mind whether he could – or even wanted to – play a 23rd season.

The 43-year-old Clemens is agreeing first to a minor league deal that pays $322,000 over the five-month minor league season. He is due to make his first start next Tuesday at Lexington, Ky., the Class A affiliate where oldest son Koby plays.

When he is added to the major league roster, he gets a one-year contract worth $22,000,022 – his uniform number is 22. Because he won’t be playing the full season, he gets only a prorated percentage of that, which would come to about $12.25 million if he rejoins Houston in late June.

Clemens has a career record of 341-172 with a 3.12 ERA and 4,502 strikeouts, pitching for Boston, Toronto, the Yankees and Astros. An 11-time All-Star and winner of the 1986 AL MVP Award, he is tied for eighth on the career wins list and is second in strikeouts behind Nolan Ryan (5,714).

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Red Sox making big push for Clemens

Tuesday, February 7th, 2006

According to a report in Tuesday’s Boston Herald, the Red Sox are getting ready to present a serious offer to Clemens, who turns 44 in August. Included in their offer is a DVD video for Clemens in which Red Sox fans plead for the right-hander to return to Boston.

The seven-time Cy Young Award winner got his start in Boston in 1984. He won 24 games in 1986, the year the Red Sox lost to the Mets in the World Series. He also had two 20-strikeout games during his 13 years in Boston.

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Red Sox Reportedly contact Clemens’ agents

Sunday, December 11th, 2005

According to to a report in the Boston Globe, the Red Sox have spoke with Clemens’ agents, the Hendricks brothers, to communicate their interest in signing the future Hall of Famer should he decide to play in 2006.

”We had an internal discussion,” Red Sox CEO and president Larry Lucchino told the Globe, ”and concluded we should make an initial call to let the Hendricks brothers know we were open to discuss Roger’s return if he should have interest in the Red Sox in 2006.

Since leaving the Red Sox, Clemens has gone 149-61 and has won at least one Cy Young award with each of his three employers — the Blue Jays, Yankees and Astros. He very well could have added an unprecedented eighth award last season had he only received a little run support; Clemens posted a career-best 1.87 ERA, but only went 13-8.

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